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Wolverhampton Wanderers have announced that the trip to Leeds United next month will be subsidised by the club.

Wolves head to Elland Road on March 7, which is a Wednesday, and has been selected for live coverage by Sky Sports.

All of these factors might dissuade Wolves fans - it’s midweek, it’s on the box and it’s a fair jaunt up the country.

But the club have moved to encourage supporters to make the trip by cutting the price of admission - whereas before tickets were £37 for adults and £25 for concessions, they’re now £30 and £20.

“We are placing a significant amount of focus on all of our remaining fixtures between now and the end of the season,” Wolves’ Managing Director Laurie Dalrymple told the club’s official website.

“With the Leeds game being on a Wednesday evening and selected for TV we want to make sure as many of our supporters as possible are able to attend the game, and we hope this gesture will go some way to ensuring that it’s as affordable as possible and we see a capacity take up of travelling fans to Elland Road.

“Our travelling support has been magnificent all season, and this is another way of showing our continued appreciation to those of you who have played a part in an excellent campaign so far.”

Wolves are twelve points clear at the top of the Championship with 15 games to play.

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Going for Gosling

Wolverhampton Wanderers are planning a move for Dan Gosling in the summer, according to reports.

Wolves beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1 at Molineux on Saturday and extended their lead at the top of the Championship to a sizeable 12 points.

With only 15 games to go, it’s generally accepted by many outside of the club that Wanderers are bound for the top flight already, though Nuno Espirito Santo and his players are unlikely to be so complacent.

Reports suggest, however, that they’ve already more than one eye on a summer of building - and Bournemouth midfielder Gosling is said to be on the list.

The 28-year-old, who has been with the south coast club since 2014 and has made more than 100 appearances, previously played for Everton and Newcastle and boasts plenty of top flight experience.

He’s played 21 times so far for the Cherries this season, and has scored twice.

Nuno had something of a midfield clear out in January - Jack Price, Lee Evans and Ben Marshall all left Wanderers, but he did sign young Ben Stevenson from Coventry.

Romain Saiss and Ruben Neves have been the regular axis for most of the season, but with the former missing the last handful of games through injury, loanee Alfred N’Diaye has filled the breach - his future is another that needs resolving this summer.

No punishment

The FA have decided that there will be no action taken against QPR defender Jack Robinson whon appeared to strike Wolves ace Diogo Jota in the 2-1 win over the Hoops at the weekend.

After the match a video circulated on social media appearing to show Jota being struck off the ball by the defender.

The incident, missed by the match officials at the time, was referred to the FA who launched an investigation.

The video was viewed by an FA panel of three former professional referees who were asked to adjudicate whether a red card offence had taken place.

However the decision was not unanimous so no disciplinary action will follow.

Premier League contracts

Wolves have spent big money getting themselves to the precipice of the Premier League - and the riches that will follow are about to come clear.

The Premier League TV is set to be unveiled in a matter of hours - and it will have major implications on the income for clubs.

The upshot will reveal the massive return Wolves will get if they can keep top spot in the Championship until the end of the season.

The new domestic rights deal will run from the 2019/20 season through to the 2021/22 campaign and replaces the current arrangement, worth more than £5 billion.

A lot of the talk about the next deal surrounds companies such as Facebook and Amazon being involved.

Who currently has domestic TV rights?

Sky Sports and BT Sport have the current rights. Sky paid £4.18 billion for 126 games while BT splashed out £960 million for 42 live matches

What is so special about the new TV rights deal?

It runs from 2019-20, for three years and there’s an expectation that the price paid to the Premier League could increase by up to 23 per cent on the price Sky and BT paid last time out - which would represent a huge increase in income for Premier League clubs.

Who is said to be in the battle for the TV rights deal?

Sky Sports and BT Sport are back in for it while Amazon and Facebook are tipped to join the race. However BT’s chief executive Gavin Patterson has suggested that his firm will not pay over the odds for the rights should it turn into an auction.

Asked if BT Sport could survive without the rights, he said: “Yes, absolutely. I don’t want in any way to diminish the importance of the Premier League of course, and the Premier League’s importance to us. But it is one of a broad set of rights. We will be competitive but ultimately won’t go beyond the price it is worth to us.”